Monday, July 26, 2010

Stand by, following the usual coach-class accommodations for a business-class upgrade from your Minion Master!

Your interminable wait is important to us. To serve you better, a supervisor may feed the representative assigned to serve you to the crab parasites just before they can answer your call. It's just one more way of saying, "we care, just not about you."

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Well, it's post-Comicon, and we're exhausted! Actually, we didn't go this year, but it's STILL exhausting, just keeping up with all the posts on news sites. This year's stabbing (such as it is) reminds us why we stopped going, despite all the cool stuff that goes on there. Yes, it's amazing. Yes, you should go (at least once). Yes, you should hurry up and do it while you're young enough and indestructible enough to enjoy it.

But nobody really goes to Comicon any more. It's too crowded.

We've had a devil of a time getting this week's cartoon posted. Out power has been blipping out for just a second at a time. Trouble is, it's been doing it for three days, and sometimes as often as every 20 minutes. Every time it goes, my desktop computer goes down as well, and that's where I do all my Minions work.

You say, "Steve, don't you have a UPS on that thing?" Well, I was going to say that I do, but it doesn't work. The local power grid chews them up and spits them out in about three months. But do I really need to explain? I mean, what evil lair has EVER had working emergency equipment? No, it's pretty much twist a large, colorful, clearly labeled dial and the whole thing blows up. It's some kind of law of the universe.

Anyway, the power company is sympathetic, but they're reporting mysterious "salt build-ups" on the wires that have "never happened before," and "suddenly started happening this week, and we don't know why." Also, they say it has something to do with a "fog from the ocean."

Now, I'm I wrong here, or is this the first act of of a SyFy original movie?

Actually, I'd suspect some kind of evil plan against us, EXCEPT WE PRETTY MUCH ARE AN EVIL PLAN!" I suspect the forces of Good. Damn, those guys are getting sneaky...

- Minion Master Steve

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Monday, July 19, 2010

Stand by, following the usual big sell for a short message from your Minion Master!Your interminable wait is important to us. To serve you better, a supervisor may feed the representative assigned to serve you to the South American Underwear Trantulas just before they can answer your call. It's just one more way of saying, "we care, just not about you."

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Greetings, Short Shorts!

I'm back to shooting new material, and hoping to build up some substantial inventory again.

I'm still considering the details of moving this site to ComicPress. Pretty sure I'll do it, but the when is still up in the air. I suspect that when I do, I'll keep this site live while I gradually repost our inventory of archived comics to the new site as "Minions Classic." There are a LOT of new projects going on here at the Lair-of-ideas, of which Minions is only a part. Hopefully you'll be hearing about some other cool stuff we're up to in coming months.

Thanks to those of you who have recently donated to the site. I'm taking that as a "yes" on the idea of the platform move, and it's really helping me make up my mind.

- Minion Master Steve

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Monday, July 12, 2010

Stand by, following the usual Triple-dealing for a bitter betrayal by your Minion Master!Your interminable wait is important to us. To serve you better, a supervisor may feed the representative assigned to serve you to the Robotic Skull-munchers just before they can answer your call. It's just one more way of saying, "we care, just not about you."

SUPPORT THE FORCES OF EVIL, WITHOUT WHOM YOU'D HAVE TO LIVE IN SOME BORING UTOPIA OR SOMETHING! While waiting for your impending doom, pick up a Minions at Work tee-shirt or other great souvenir of your visit to the Lair: THE MINION'S LAIR OF MERCHANDISE "Satisfaction guaranteed or we'll make make you buy something else!" and NUMBER TWO'S HOUSE OF NAUGHTY (For very small values of naughty.) Or just click on our "Donate" button and send us cash add to our "Buy the Minions a Camera Fund!" 100% of your contribution goes to allow starving orphans to buy blankets for kittens. Nah, not really, it all goes to ME, in order to further the cause of EVIL, and the photography thereof.

KEEP IN TOUCH WITH THE MINIONS: Join the Minions Reminder Email List. It's free, it's easy, and you'll never miss a Minions at Work cartoon (or if you do, it won't be our fault!) Or become one of our followers. See the follower box in our Mighty Sidebar! Or join our "Minions at Work" group on Facebook. And yes, I'm finally on Twitter. Follow me. I'm JSteveYork there (clicking on the previous link will take you straight to my profile page.) Eventually I'm getting No. 1 his own account for Minions-related-business, but one thing at a time. Still: We're everywhere! We're everywhere!Greetings, Hoard of Ignored!

Yes, I totally blew-off posting Minions last week. So shoot me. I've haven't done that too often in the years I've been doing this comic, so I feel like I had a freebie coming. Besides, to make up for it, I posted an inventory-clearing TRIPLE FEATURE this week, based on the always-popular theme of "heads."

Actually, it was just the cartoon I intended to post last week, and a couple of dusty toons that have been at the bottom of the inventory forever. Don't tell. Heck, for all I know, these are the three funniest Minions at Work cartoons ever! (But probably not.)

Anyway, it's been a week of it here. Lots of behind-the-scenes stuff happening here at the Lair, some of it good, some of it Not Good. Nothing I'm going to go into here. Just distractions. Also, shaking fist at one-eyed-yellow-Tylenol-Minions-Come-Lately! Take that, you and your bazillions of dollars!

I'm also doing a lot of soul-searching about doing a major Site remodel, dumping our current Blogger Platform, and going to Wordpress with a nifty-looking web-comic-designed theme called CartoonPress. Take a look here to see what I'm talking about. It would look much more professional and be much easier to navigate (especially when looking through the archives).

On the down side, I've have to migrate 200+ old cartoons and a lot of other content over, do a lot of set-up and design work, and it would add monthly hosting fees (plus the suggested donation for the theme, which I'd feel-honor bound to pay). I'd also have the issue about what to do with the old site. Leave it up on blogger? Try and buy a new domain for the new site? And since a lot of our traffic comes in from TVTropes.org where they have tons of direct links to cartoons. All of these would be broken if I put the new site at www.MinionsAtWork.com.

So I'll probably do it, but how and when remain to be seen. If you think it's a good idea, let me know. You can also help keep the lights (and pay our hosting fees) by making a small contribution using the button below, shopping on Amazon using our links, or buying swag from one of our stores (and thanks to those of you already doing that). One thing I'd REALLY like to tone down would be to eliminate the weekly pan-handling here and replace them with some discrete buttons, banners, and menu options. So the move would all-around be good for you guys.

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